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96% of CISOs struggle to get the support required to be resilient against cyberattacks

Trellix has released its latest report, The Mind of the CISO. The research is the result of a survey of global Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across every major industry and reveals how they work amidst a tumultuous threat landscape, which...

AI will reshape the finance sector – here’s how

AI is revolutionising many sectors, including financial services. Here, Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group, shares his thoughts about how the technology will become a key player in the industry. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to play an ever-increasing role...

UK Government launches new cybersecurity measures to tackle threats

New cybersecurity measures will increase the UK’s cyber-resilience and protect the UK Government’s essential IT functions from ever-growing threats. Under the new rules, all central government departments will have their cyber-health reviewed annually through new...

Innovative engineering company turns up the heat on future growth plans

A Sheffield-based engineering company, which is helping businesses recoup thousands of pounds in energy costs, is turning up the heat on its future growth plans after calling on help from Finance For Enterprise and the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund....

Royal Bank of Scotland to launch mentor matchmaking for women

Royal Bank of Scotland has partnered with online mentoring platform Digital Boost Upskilling to launch a new, free-to-use, mentor matchmaking service designed for the needs of the next generation of Scottish women in business. Known as MentorMatch, the new...

Study finds financial advisors pursue client engagement due to economic conditions 

Edward Jones has announced its survey findings, revealing three-quarters of financial advisors (76%) from across the industry have increased their engagement with clients due to current economic conditions in the United States. Most financial...

Study finds that technical debt and skills shortages threaten to stifle innovation

Technology leaders still have work to do when it comes to balancing their ambitious innovation strategies with organisational priorities and a host of business challenges, according to a new Protiviti survey of more than 1,000 CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and...

AEG partners with Microsoft and Crayon to revolutionise SWIFT infrastructure in MEA

Allied Engineering Group (AEG), one of the largest SWIFT service bureaus globally, has announced its collaboration with Microsoft and Crayon to bring tailored and compliant solutions to financial service institutions (FSIs) that are migrating their SWIFT...

Two-fifths of UK key workers have taken on a side hustle or overtime to make ends meet

Two-fifths (43%) of key workers in the UK have been forced to take on additional part-time work on top of their full-time role, or work extra overtime shifts to make ends meet, new research Creditspring shows.  The data shows significantly higher...

Dialect Communications and Paynetics deliver customer engagement services to Europe 

Dialect Communications, a Business Process Outsource (BPO) that offers customer experience (CX) solutions for FinTechs, has partnered with Paynetics, one of Europe’s leading providers of embedded finance and digital banking, to provide world-class customer en...

Survey finds about half of American workers are suffering from financial stress

With inflation and escalating healthcare costs continuing to plague American workers, financial stress is on the rise and now impacting about half of employees, according to a survey by FinFit with Salary Finance. Inside the Wallets of Working Americans,...

Rooting for Africa’s insurance industry 

FinChoice – a sister company to HomeChoice – has launched a Personal Accident Plan using Root’s platform, with the aim of selling life insurance to its urban customer base. Here, Louw Hopley, Founder and CEO of Root, tells us more about how this par...